English & Comparative Literature

Session I  (June 3 - June 28)

ENG 355 - Advanced Studies in Twentieth Century Literature

Topic:  British Cinema and English Literature

Luther T. Tyler, Associate Professor of English

Our primary study will be British movies, in their self-defining struggle against three gargantuan competitors: (1) Hollywood, with its huge resources of money and talent, seemingly unbound by restrictions of class, ethnicity, or academy; (2) the greatness of England’s own narrative “high art,” which may have begun as merely “popular” forms but by the advent of film had become safely enshrined as great; and (3) theater itself, film’s closest and most jealous grand relative—still the prime source of trained actors, and for decades unsharing of its resources with the upstart medium of film. Conceptually magnificent as they may be, however, struggles such as these gather their meanings through anecdote, like the transmutation of Brooklyn’s Stanley Kubrick into an English director; the converse movement of Alfred Hitchcock to Hollywood; and the often self-parodied “use” of Hollywood by British writers like Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene, W.H. Auden, and—though without their intent—Shakespeare and Austen.

Time:  M,W,TH (1:30-4:30pm)

Location: FND 120

Credit: 1.0 unit (4 sem. hrs.)

Tuition: $2,300

Registration Fee: $50 (non-refundable)

ENG 113/CPLT 113 - Studies in Fiction

Topic:  The World of Fiction

Marilyn Sides, Senior Lecturer in English

When fiction blurs or crosses the line between our “real” world and “other worlds,” the reader (as well as the narrator or main character) has entered the realm of “the fantastic,” a genre that (broadly interpreted) contains "magical realism," "the uncanny,” “the supernatural," "the ghost story.” We will read short novels and short fiction by nineteenth-century, twentieth-century, and twenty-first century masters from Europe, Japan, North and South America: Gogol, Borges, Allende, James, Poe, Faulkner, Kawabata, Kafka, among them. Taught primarily in discussion, this course will not be writing-intensive. Three short essays and very brief reading responses required.

Time: M, W, Th. 1:30 - 4:10

Location: TBD

Credit: 1.0 unit (4 sem. hrs.) Students may register for either ENG 113 or CPLT 113 and credit will be granted accordingly.

Tuition: $2,300

Registration Fee:$50 (non-refundable)

Session II  (July 1 - July 26)

ENG 203 - Short Narrative

Adam Schwartz, Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program

The writing of the short story; frequent class discussion of student writing, with some reference to established examples of the genre. Students who have taken this course once may register for it one additional time. Mandatory credit/noncredit.

Time:  M,W,TH 6:00pm - 8:45pm

Location: PNE 251

Credit: 1.0 unit (4 sem. hrs.)

Tuition: $2,300

Registration Fee: $50 (non-refundable)

ENG 267 - American Literatures from the 1940's to the Present

Topic: American Modernisms North and South

Luther T. Tyler, Associate Professor of English

American literature from World War II to the present. Consideration of fiction, poetry, memoirs, essays, and films that reflect and inspire the cultural upheavals of the period, with a focus on interactions of Northern literary centers New York, Boston and Chicago with Southern agrarian fiction, poetry, and criticism.  Possible writers to be studied include: Robert Lowell, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor, Don DeLillo, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin.

Time:  M,W,TH (1:30-4:30pm)

Location: FND 102

Credit: 1.0 unit (4 sem. hrs.)

Course Fee: $2,300

Registration Fee: $50 (non-refundable)